GEMSTONE PUBLISHING
STARS OF THE MONTH
THE OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE VOLUME 39 SC
(E) Robert M. Overstreet
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, the definitive guide for comic collectors and dealers alike, returns for its 39th edition, including a 70th anniversary look at Batman's first year, an introduction to The Hero Initiative, new entries in the Overstreet Hall of Fame, and the most extensive pricing from the world of comics! This edition features two covers — a modern interpretation of The Avengers #1 by John K. Snyder III and a recreation of the classic All-Select Comics #1 by Murphy Anderson.
ALL-SELECT (DEC084049)—SC $29.95
AVENGERS (DEC084047)—SC $29.95
**********************************************************************
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
WEATHERCRAFT HC
(W/A) Jim Woodring
104 pgs / BW / 7.5 x 9.5 / HC $19.99
THE FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM A MASTER OF THE FORM
For over 20 years now, Jim Woodring has delighted, touched, and puzzled readers around the world with his lush, wordless tales of “Frank.”
Weathercraft is Woodring’s first full-length graphic novel set in this world—indeed, Woodring’s first graphic novel, period!—and it features the same hypnotically gorgeous linework and mystical iconography.
As it happens, Frank has only a brief supporting appearance in Weathercraft, which actually stars Manhog, Woodring’s pathetic, brutish everyman (or everyhog), who had previously made several appearances in “Frank” stories (as well as a stunning solo turn in the short story “Gentlemanhog”).
After enduring 32 pages of almost incomprehensible suffering, Manhog embarks upon a transformative journey and attains enlightenment. He wants to go to celestial realms but instead altruistically returns to the Unifactor to undo a wrong he has inadvertently brought about: The transformation of the evil politician Whim into a mind-destroying plant-demon who distorts and enslaves Frank and his friends. The new and metaphysically expanded Manhog sets out for a final battle with Whim...
Weathercraft also co-stars Frank’s cast of beloved supporting characters, including Frank’s Faux Pa and the diminutive, mailbox-like Pupshaw and Pushpaw; it is both a fully independent story that is a great introduction to Woodring’s world, and a sublime addition to, and extension of, the Frank stories.
Weathercraft will be a defining graphic novel of 2010.
STILL AVAILABLE
MOME VOL. 9 TP
(E) Eric Reynolds
120 pgs / FULL COLOR / 7 x 9 / SC $14.95
Hornschemeier, Crumb, Bell, Arp, and Wolfgang return, along with Davis, Kaczynski, Kimball and Fenwick. Plus Al Columbia, Zak Sally, Built to Spill artist Mike Scheer, and the first part of a Jim Woodring "Frank" story. (JUL073561)
MOME VOL. 10 TP
(E) Eric Reynolds
120 pgs / FULL COLOR / 7 x 9 / SC $14.95
With the conclusion to Jim Woodring's "The Lute String." Plus Tom Kaczynski (also interviewed), Robert Goodin, Dash Shaw, Ray Fenwick, John Hankiewicz, Sophie Crumb, Tim Hensley, Jonathan Bennett and a cover by Al Columbia. (OCT073509)
PORTABLE FRANK TP
(W/A) Jim Woodring
200 pgs / BW / 6.25 x 8.75 / SC $16.99
A visionary work of comic art for all-ages! Readers who haven’t discovered Jim Woodring’s Frank stories have a colossal treat waiting for them in this all-ages gem collecting the character’s greatest adventures. (JUN083954)
SEEING THINGS
(W/A) Jim Woodring
104 pgs / BW & COLOR / 8.5 x 11/ SC $16.95
Jim Woodring's drawings take his comics' otherworldly qualities to new levels of clarity and nuance, exploring hidden worlds, alternate realities and the inexplicable resonance of the unprecedented and irrational in lucid art. (DEC063571)
************************************************************************
PUSSEY! TP (NEW PRINTING)
(W/A) Dan Clowes
64 pgs / BW / 7.25 x 11 / SC $9.95
This hilarious classic is a brutal, scathing peek into the insular, pathetic world of the comics industry. If you think Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons is pathetic (and hilarious), wait 'til you meet Dan Pussey!
DUNGEON QUEST BOOK ONE GN
(W/A) Joe Daly
136 pgs / BW / 6 x 8.25 / SC $12.99
One day Millenium [sic] Boy decided to grab his hobo stick, his bandana, and his Swiss Army knife, bid his mom goodbye, and head off on a quest for adventure. Joined by his best friend Steve (weapon: baseball bat; clothing: wife beater, cargo pants and sandals), they soon find themselves in a violent altercation with two other adventure seekers. It ends badly for their antagonists (“Whoa, check it out, dude! You actually knocked this dude’s brain right out of his cranium!”) and Millenium Boy and Steve become the proud owners of fancy weapons upgrades (a crowbar and a steel chain). Please enjoy this suburban role-playing game yarn from the creator of The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book. And stay tuned for Dungeon Quest Book Two in six months!
MEATCAKE GN
(W/A) Dame Darcy
240 pgs / BW / 7 x 10.25 / SC $22.99
Victorian humor, horror and romance guest-starring Alan Moore!
Dame Darcy is one of the most beguiling presences on the comics scene — musician, actress, cable TV star, fortune teller, dollmaker, and last but not least, cartoonist to the core! Alternating between cruel and tragic fairy tales and ongoing romps, Meatcake GN is an expanded reprint of the out-of-print hardcover with more stories assembling the very best of Darcy’s work including “Hungry Is the Heart,” the legendary collaboration with Watchmen’s Alan Moore, all delineated in her inimitable luxurious scrawl.
PRINCE VALIANT VOL. 2
(W/A) Hal Foster
112 pgs / FULL COLOR / 10.25 x 14 / HC $29.99
In this second volume, Prince Valiant helps his father reclaim his throne in kingdom of Thule, fights alongside King Arthur, and is made a knight of the Round Table in recompense for his bravery and wit. Bored by the peace he helped to create, Val decides to battle the Huns. When Val’s army breaches the Huns’ stronghold, he discovers that corruption reigns in Rome. Thus Val sets off with Sir Gawain and Tristam of Arthurian legend, and the fellowship of the trio sees them through false imprisonment and daring escapes. By the end of this volume, they go their separate ways, and Val boards a ship to Sicily — yet a storm approaches, throwing him off-course, as adventure follows him everywhere. Thanks to the use of original proof sheets and advances in printing technology, these comic strip masterpieces are even brighter and crisper than when they were originally published 70 years ago! Finally Foster’s achievement is treated to the grand depiction it deserves!
CATALOG NO. 315: BURLESQUE PARAPHERNALIA AND SIDE DEGREE SPECIALTIES AND COSTUMES
(E) Gary Groth
240 pgs / BW / 7.5 x 11 / SC $22.99
(WARNING: Fantagraphics Books is in no way responsible for any resultant maiming, crippling, immolation, or disfigurement resulting from the construction and/or use of devices pictured in this catalogue.)
Today, DeMoulin Bros. & Co. is one of the largest suppliers of costumes for marching bands in the United States. But in 1930 the company produced an amazing array of props and devices created specifically to be used in minor “hazing” of candidates in the side degrees of various fraternal organizations. The great 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Company Fraternal Supply Catalog No. 315 is truly a holy grail for the prankster, arm-chair sadist and those interested in the some of the zanier historic arcana lurking behind that neighborhood odd-fellows lodge. This is the ultimate desert-island prank book of strange devices!
ARTICHOKE TALES HC
(W/A) Megan Kelso
176 pgs / 1 Color / 6.5 x 8 / HC $22.99
Megan Kelso has proved herself a master of the cartoon short story with Squirrel Mother. With Artichoke Tales, six years in the making, Kelso expands her range (and her page count) by creating a family saga spanning three generations and an entire continent.
Artichoke Tales is a coming-of-age story about a young girl named Brigitte whose family is caught between the two warring sides of a civil war, a graphic novel that takes place in a world that echoes our own, but whose people have artichoke leaves instead of hair. Kelso weaves a moving story about family amidst war with delicate linework with rhythmic, musical page compositions.
MOME VOLUME 18 SC
(E) Eric Reynolds
120 pgs / FULL COLOR / 7 x 9 / SC $14.99
The multiple Harvey and Eisner Award nominee returns for its 5th year! This issue’s cover is by Nate Neal, who delivers “The Neurotic Nexus of Creation,” a 15-page explication of the creative process. MOME 18 also includes the first new comic in several years by Dave Cooper, as well as the MOME debuts of Tim Lane, Ivan Brun, Joe Daly, and Jon Adams. Also returning are Lillu Carre, Ben Jones, Frank Santoro, Jon Vermilyea, Nicolas Mahler, Ted Stearn, Renee French, Conor O’Keefe, Derek Van Gieson, and T. Edward Bak.
STILL AVAILABLE
THE RED MONKEY DOUBLE HAPPINESS BOOK HC
(W/A) Joe Daly
112 cps / FULL COLOR / 7.75 x 10.25 / HC $22.99
Set in sun-drenched Cape Town, South Africa, this book features two full-length stories, “The Leaking Cello Case” and “John Wesley Harding,” rife with mystery, suspense, action, adventure, conspiracy theories, cool cars and excellent vibrations. (MAY090843)
SCRUBLANDS GN
(W/A) Joe Daly
128 pgs / B&W & COLOR / 8.5 x 11 / SC $16.95
Daly's cartoons, offbeat, hallucinatory, and often hilarious, range from representational Jim Jarmusch-like scenarios to wild visual excursions, albeit linear ones, presenting a unique mix of deadpan absurdity and surreal imagery. (JAN063042)
PRINCE VALIANT VOL. 1
(W/A) Hal Foster
120 pgs / FULL COLOR / 10.5 x 14.25 / HC $29.99
The most stunningly gorgeous adventure comic strip of all time finally returns in its definitive edition, the first to boast superb restored artwork that captures every delicate line and chromatic nuance of Foster’s original masterpiece. (FEB094278)
SQUIRREL MOTHER SC
(W/A) Megan Kelso
136 pgs / FULL COLOR / 6.5 x 8.5 / SC $16.95
This acclaimed collection of graphic short stories includes personal and semi-autobiographical stories that draw heavily on the details of Kelso's youth along with stories about the idea of America and American history. (JAN063043)
************************************************************************
GESTALT PUBLISHING PTY LTD
CHANGING WAYS SC
(W/A) Justin Randall
David Barrot moved to Grey Oaks after the tragic death of his son, Cale. He bought a farm on the outskirts of town with his wife and daughter to begin life anew, putting aside the dark events of their past. Unfortunately for them, the dark just won't leave David alone. The first sightings started months ago, igniting rumors of disease and infection. Newspaper stories of strange side effects and mysterious lesions spread quickly. Perhaps it was inevitable that the people of Grey Oaks would be next. (C: 0-1-0)
SC, 120pgs, FC $17.95
GREAT BIG COMICS
VOYAGES OF THE SHEBUCANEER: ORIGINS #1
(W/A) Will & Heidi Hughes
The Lusty Lady of the Deep Blue Sea returns for a fanciful retelling of her origins which includes real pirates like Blackbeard, Ann Bonney, Mary Read, Calico Jack Rackham, and Charles Vane. Her 3-part origin story is firmly set in a historical context and seasoned by the rambling memories of a drunken pirate narrator, with romance and epic pirate adventure upon the high seas. And if that isn't enough, there's her first session on evil Governor William Truk's sadistic torture rack!
32pgs, FC (1 of 3) $3.99